Education

BS, Biopsychology and Cognitive Science,
University of Michigan
MD, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
Psychiatry Residency at University of Washington

Career Goals

“Upon completing the Psychosomatic Medicine fellowship I hope to find a position that combines both inpatient and outpatient consultation experiences. I have a strong interest in working with minority and underserved populations, and have an interest in women’s health and perinatal psychiatry. I also have completed training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy and would like to incorporate this training into my career as well.”

Follow Me For A Week

All Day:		Slept in then attended a summer garden party hosted by one of the attending. Spent the rest of the afternoon running errands and also spent some time outside at one of the great local Seattle parks

Morning:		Harborview Consults all day, with one hour didactics over the noon hour
Afternoon:		See above
Evening:		Went to REI to do some shopping, then home to have dinner with my husband

Morning:		Was at Seattle Cancer Care alliance in the morning seeing patients in clinic
Afternoon:		Harborview Consults for the afternoon
Evening:		Went home and made dinner with my husband

Morning:		Usually I have consult clinic in the Neurology Department, but today I went and observed an attending who provides psychiatric consultation via video teleconferencing to a small mental health clinic in Forks, WA
Afternoon:		Harborview Consults for the afternoon
Evening:		Taught Dialectical Behavioral Therapy skills class to a group of residents and clinicians

Morning:		Harborview Consults for the morning
Afternoon:		Thursday afternoon are usually my scholarly time where I am working on my Cultural Psychiatry track project, however today, I offered to present at the R1 didactics on the topic of decisional capacity
Evening:		Had dinner with friends

Morning:		Harborview Consults for the morning
Afternoon:		Went to my afternoon clinic at the Maternal Infant Care clinic where I see prenatal and postpartum women. Also had supervisio
Evening:		Relaxed with husband and watched a movie

All Day:		Had brunch in the morning with friends, then headed off to go camping for the weekend near Mt. Rainier!

Psychotherapy

“In my general psychiatry residency here, my psychotherapy supervisors provided me helpful feedback and I learned a lot from videotaping myself and reviewing sessions with them. I started out in my R2 year with supportive and brief analytic psychotherapy seminars, in addition to really well taught psychodynamic seminars in didactics. Then in our R3 year we had a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy seminar. I took a seminar in Behavioral Activation and completed the Dialectical Behavioral Therapy course, which was a highlight of my residency. DBT training provided me the chance to work with an individual client, teach a group skills class to clients, and resulted in a lot of wonderful supervision from some of the country’s leading experts!”

Clinical Rotations

• Harborview Inpatient Consult Service
• Seattle Cancer Care Alliance
• Harborview Neurology Clinic
• Maternal Infant Care Clinic
• Scholarly Time

Average Weekly Hours

40-50 hours

Night and Weekend Duty

None! No call during fellowship year!

Education

BA, Women's Studies, Washington University in St. Louis
MD, University of Utah School of Medicine

Career Goals

“I am excited to be starting a Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at the University of Utah next year.”

Follow Me For A Week

Morning:		Slept in, read a book
Afternoon:		Went for a walk on the Greenbelt, movie with friends
Evening:		Cooked dinner with friends

Morning:		8:00 arrival on the VA inpatient unit, morning rounds, psychodynamic therapy seminar
Afternoon:		Psychotherapy supervision, prepared a presentation for medical students, read articles for the week's seminars and didactics
Evening:		Went to the gym, made dinner, watched a documentary

Morning:		8:15 arrival to Family Medicine Clinic for continuity clinic
Afternoon:		Lunch with a fellow resident, wrote notes, saw patients, caseload supervision
Evening:		Evening: Dinner, relaxed at home

Morning:		8:30 arrival at the VA for continuity clinic, saw patients
Afternoon:		Lunch with a fellow resident, wrote notes, saw patients, caseload supervision
Evening:		Relaxed at home

Morning:		T-group, didactics
Afternoon:		Board review with fellow residents, psychotherapy supervision, DBT seminar
Evening:		Dinner at home

Morning:		9:00 arrival to student health center, saw patients
Afternoon:		Noon conference, lunch, notes, saw patients, caseload supervision
Evening:		Hung out at home

Morning:		Slept in, went to a friend's house for breakfast
Afternoon:		Learned to skate ski at Bogus Basin
Evening:		Dinner at a locally adored restaurant that finally reopened after a fire

Clinical Rotations

• Women’s and Children’s Alliance
• Outpatient Child Psychiatry
• Boise VA Continuity Clinic
• Family Medicine Residency Continuity Clinic
• Research Elective
• Psychotherapy Elective
• Boise State Student Health Center Elective
• Chief Day

Average Weekly Hours

40 hours

Night and Weekend Duty

In Idaho we have no night or weekend duty!

Psychotherapy

“This year I am enrolled in a psychotherapy elective that allows me to work with four excellent supervisors skilled in psychodynamic therapy, mindfulness-based therapy, trauma focused therapies and group psychotherapy.”

Education

BA, Psychology, Yale University
MD, University of Michigan School of Medicine
MBA, University of Michigan School of Business

Career Goals

“I am very interested in systems and organization, so I think my future will hold at least some administrative work in addition to clinical practice.  I am also drawn to teaching and have joined the Teacher Scholars Track.  I’m also looking forward to being one of the chief residents next year.  Mostly, I’m still sampling what’s out there and trying to see what I like best.”

Follow Me For A Week

Morning:		Slept in
Afternoon:		Brunch with my boyfriend and friends on Capitol Hill, went running
Evening:		Dinner at home

Morning:		8:00 arrival to Seattle Counseling Service (SCS), a community mental health center targeted at serving Seattle’s LGBT population.  Saw morning patients and had individual, clinic supervision
Afternoon:		Saw afternoon clinic patients at SCS
Evening:		Gym, dinner with boyfriend, bad television

Morning:		7:45 arrival to Harborview Medical Center’s Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic.  Saw long-term continuity clinic patients, had individual supervision in cognitive behavioral therapy
Afternoon:		Had caseload supervision, saw afternoon patients, had individual supervision for psychodynamic psychotherapy
Evening:		Rock climbing with friends

Morning:		8:00 arrival to Seattle VA Hospital Addictions Treatment Center.  Saw clinic patients and had individual, clinic supervision
Afternoon:		Saw afternoon clinic patients
Evening:		Went running, dinner, read

Morning:		8:00 attended R3 didactic series, T-group, Business Meeting
Afternoon:		Attended R3 Clinical Interaction Seminar, attended advanced psychodynamic psychotherapy seminar
Evening:		Happy hour with friends, bad television

Morning:		Individual research time for educational projects
Afternoon:		Individual research time for educational projects
Evening:		Gym, dinner with boyfriend, out on the town

Morning:		Slept in
Afternoon:		Brunch with friends
Evening:		Got sign-out from day resident at UWMC, started night call

Clinical Rotations

Harborview Continuity Clinic

VA Geriatric Outpatient Clinic

Seattle Children’s Hospital Outpatient Clinic     

Seattle Counseling Services Outpatient Clinic

VA Addictions Outpatient Clinic

Independent Research and Educational Elective

Average Weekly Hours

40 hours

Night and Weekend Duty

Average 1-2 weekend shifts per month, around 12 hours each

Psychotherapy

“Thus far in my training I have completed my supportive psychotherapy seminar, my psychodynamic therapy and  my cognitive behavioral therapy seminars.  I really enjoy my psychodynamic seminar with Ann DeLancey—she is an excellent teacher and pushes us to really expand our horizons in psychodynamic formulations. I have also elected to take an advanced seminar in psychodynamic psychotherapy with Gary Grenell. I have a fantastic set of individual supervisors as well to further enhance my learning”

Education

BA, Anthropology, Univerisity of California, San Diego
MD, UC San Francisco-UC Berkeley Joint Medical Program
PhD, Medical Anthropology, UCSF-UC Berkeley

Career Goals

“I’d like a balance of research and clinical practice. I’m still figuring out what I’m interested in within psychiatry, but I’d like to integrate my clinical practice with my interests and activities in global health and medical anthropology.”

Follow Me For A Week

All Day:		Up at 7am with infant son. Went to aquarium with wife and son

Morning:		Up at 6:30, bike to HMC at 7:30 to read up on consult liaison patients and see if we got any new ones overnight. Evidence-Based Medicine seminar at noon
Afternoon:		Tried to finish notes early so I could get to my supervision appointment at 4
Evening:		Dinner with family

Morning:		Similar work routine
Afternoon:		Outpatient clinic at noon, see my first patient at 1, then have Brief Analytic Psychotherapy seminar, see my second patient, followed by case load supervision. Head home and stop off at Grand Central bakery to get discounted bread before they close
Evening:		Cook dinner and take care of my son so my wife can go to yoga

Morning:		Similar work routine
Afternoon:		Short call, stayed until 6
Evening:		Hang out with family

Morning:		R2 didactics at UW. Two lectures, Somatization and Psychotherapeutic Case Formulation, followed by T-group with my residency class, then resident business meeting with lunch, featuring talk from an attending on tips for staying on top of new developments in psychopharmacology
Afternoon:		Back to HMC consult-liaison service
Evening:		Psychotherapy appointment at 5pm, then home with family

Morning:		Back at HMC consult-liaison service
Afternoon:		Lunch-time conference discussing suicide prevention
Evening:		Out to dinner in Capitol Hill La Bete

All Day:		Call at HMC, 8am-8pm. Get home and collapse at the end of the day.

Clinical Rotations

Paternity Leave

Harborview Psychiatry Emergency Services

Night float

Harborview Inpatient Psychiatry

UW Inpatient Psychiatry

Harborview Consult-Liaison

UW Consult-Liaison

Research Elective

“For my dissertation research, I collaborated with an interdisciplinary group based at University of Washington and worked in central Mozambique, looking at community dynamics around the initiation of antiretroviral therapy and the ethics of global humanitarian interventions.”

Average Weekly Hours

Inpatient Psychiatry: 50

Night and Weekend Duty

5 weeks Psychiatry night float: a 3-week and a 2-week block

19 weekend call shifts (12 hours each) this year

Education

BS, Psychobiology, UCLA
MD, UCSD School of Medicine

Career Goals

“I envision myself as a clinician, but continuing work in academics through teaching. It is difficult to decide what will ultimately be the best fit for me, however, as I have enjoyed working with the pediatric population and am considering child and adolescent psychiatry. I am also interested in mental health issues affecting women, especially in the perinatal period.”

Follow Me For A Week

Morning:		Walk to mass in the morning, drive over to Ballard to buy fresh produce at the Farmer’s Market
Afternoon:		Skate around the long track at Green Lake. Head back home in the late afternoon to cook dinner
Evening:		Eat dinner with my husband and watch a movie

Morning:		Take shuttle into work and arrive at 7:20. Read up on overnight events and get sign-out until rounds with attending at 8:00. Attend noon conference
Afternoon:		Family meetings, collateral-gathering, and brief teaching with medical students while my attending writes notes. Done by 5:00
Evening:		Gym, then dinner with my husband

Morning:		Meet with off-wards supervisor at 7:00 to discuss counter-transference issues with a difficult patient.
Afternoon:		Family meeting, collateral-gathering, and brief teaching with medical students
Evening:		Read about treatment of refractory depression at local tea-house. Watch movie before bed

Morning:		Usual morning
Afternoon:		Short call, time spent writing affidavit for a new admission.
Evening:		Planted lettuce and herbs in my yard, then experimented with a new cupcake recipe to bring to work. Refresh my memory on antipsychotic side effects. Sleep!

Morning:		Rounds as usual. Flip cards with attending
Afternoon:		Business meeting at noon (with great food) then didactics
Evening:		Happy hour with some of my co-interns at a local sushi restaurant

Morning:		Usual morning
Afternoon:		Coffee and supervision with my wards attending. Spend extra time preparing for the weekend
Evening:		Out for beers and pretzels at Brave Horse Tavern with my husband and orthopedic residents

Morning:		Sleep in then walk to Gas Works Park to enjoy the view
Afternoon:		Laundry, tidy up my house, then take a quick nap
Evening:		Overnight call at HMC

Clinical Rotations

Children’s Inpatient Psychiatry

Children’s Inpatient Pediatric Neurology

Harborview Inpatient Psychiatry

Night float

Harborview Medicine Consults

Adult Inpatient Neurology

VA Inpatient Psychatiry

UW Inpatient Psychiatry

“I couples matched with my husband, an orthopedic surgery resident. It was important for us both to have an excellent clinical experience with diverse patient populations, not just culturally, but also in clinical presentation. Serving a large geographical area including five states, UW definitely suited us both.”

Average Weekly Hours

Inpatient Psychiatry: 50 – 60
Inpatient Medicine: 70-80
Neurology 60-70

Night and Weekend Duty

3 weeks psychiatry night float over the
year 5-6 weekend calls

1 week of pediatric night float; 4 weekend days off each month

4 days off from medicine each month on a rolling schedule, no overnight duties

4 weekend days off from Neurology each month, no overnight duties